beware the curse of knowledge

... draw rm conclusions If we ask whether the introduction of a knowledge management system improves the quality of software, only one of the studies, from the Software Engineering Laboratory gives ... we ask: Does the introduction of a knowledge management system: Improve the quality of software? Lower the cost of developing software? Improve the work situation of employees in an organisation? ... Most of the project members say use of the Extranet has supported the work on the project and saved time, it is also easier to nd documents and other information Further claims are that the use of...

Ngày tải lên: 16/01/2014, 16:33

... in{5} them that the evils of bad administration are to be located The fault lies with the officials themselves, who are the victims of the stupid system which has placed them in the position they ... not the nomenclature of appointments, the subdivision of departmental work, and such matters of detail, that stand in need of the reformer The titles and duties of the several officials are of ... forms the intellectual food of the vast majority of the public It is wholly unjustifiable and illogical to blame them They are not founders of new schools of thought in the field of literature; they...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 16:22

... increase the knowledge of the client Conclusion In all of these dilemmas, the context of organizational culture dictates the preference or the starting point of reconciliation, but effective knowledge ... salespeople relate to the needs of the buyers, not to their own needs In the same way, effective upward influencers relate to the larger needs of the organization, not just to the needs of their unit or ... influencing up, focus on the impact of the decision on the overall corporation In most cases, the needs of the unit and the needs of the corporation are directly connected In some cases, they are not Don’t...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 20:19

... one of the puhonuas of Hawaii, of which we had so often heard the chiefs and others speak There are only two on the island; the one which we were then examining, and another at Waipio, on the ... about the weather, the dearth of paying tourists on the island and the first bad signs of what some of them saw as the imminent collapse of the local real estate market Hawaii had been the only ... sixteen-foot wave by the time it hits Kona There is no other place in the world that so consistently bears the brunt of other people's weather The Kona Coast is on the leeward side of the Big Island,...

Ngày tải lên: 31/05/2014, 01:41

... each other Many attempts dealt with the definition of knowledge itself, a kind of epistemologic approach These latter attempts never addressed the issue of managing these knowledge assets; they ... a piece of a large, complex puzzle I often use the analogy of the four pillars to that of the juggler The juggler has four balls in the air and loses when he or she drops any one of them While ... equal, the four pillars are not equal especially in the case of the organizational element Validation of the Proposed Knowledge Management Framework Because of the extreme qualitative nature of the...

Ngày tải lên: 04/06/2014, 13:15

... 22 The Possibility of Knowledge the outlines of a multi-levels response to (HPpk ) but very little sense of how to fill in the details If there are obstacles to the acquisition of knowledge of the ... 32 The Possibility of Knowledge would make the acquisition of knowledge of the world by means of the senses impossible So what needs to be done to keep alive the possibility of perceptual knowledge ... possibility of perceptual knowledge The point of (U) is to suggest that what we get through the senses is not knowledge of the world but knowledge of something that is epistemically prior to knowledge of...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 01:24

... reports of knowledge, for often a report will indicate not only the fact known, but also the provenance of the knowledge If the knowledge arises from some mental act of the subject, then the content ... metaphysics of knowledge to the mind, the other relatum of the knowledge relation The chapter discusses the problem of consciousness, and seeks to define consciousness in terms of knowledge It ... and the unity of the self To the extent that the arguments given in the book succeed, they suggest that the concept of knowledge is a theoretically fruitful one, in terms of which many other...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 09:43

... IMPLICATIONS OF THE LAW OF LOGARITHMIC RETURNS THE GROWTH OF KNOWLEDGE THE DECELERATION OF SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS PREDICTIVE IMPLICATIONS OF THE INFORMATION/ KNOWLEDGE RELATIONSHIP THE CENTRALITY OF QUALITY ... to the theory of knowledge —to epistemology broadly speaking, which accordingly extends far beyond the domain of knowledge as such But knowledge lies at the center of the range, and as the very ... epistemology, the theory of knowledge, has focused on knowledge of the first type, propositional or factual knowledge of the sort where “I know that bears are mammals” is paradigmatic However, the present...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 12:56

... more so when the Montagnards fell under the spell of the radical wing of the Jacobin Club of Paris After the overthrow of the Girondists during the popular insurrections of 1793, the Montagnards ... love of the truth of the most gifted thinkers of the eighteenth century remain to this day without parallel Their age is one of the best and most hopeful episodes in the life of mankind." But they ... his 1840 synthesis The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, was the first to speak of consilience, literally a "jumping together" of knowledge by the linking of facts and fact-based theory across...

Ngày tải lên: 12/06/2014, 22:44

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Ngày tải lên: 09/07/2014, 14:21

... with the development of the knowledge- based economy Secondly, the empirical study of a number of countries and a number of Provinces in the country in the development of human resources, the thesis ... with the development of the knowledge- based economy - On the basis of the empirical study of human resource development in a number of East Asian countries and Provinces in the country, the thesis ... higher [76, 60] We can confirm, the impact of the scientific –technological revolution and the requirements of use of the knowledge of the economy makes the model of human resources for industrialization...

Ngày tải lên: 22/07/2014, 18:29

... the link provided At the URL linked within the email message, participants also received access to the PDF version of the systematic review, the published abstract of the review, as well as the ... description of the KB intervention is published elsewhere [81] However, the main activities of the KB intervention are described At the start of the intervention, the KB conducted assessments at the ... manuscript Acknowledgements The authors gratefully acknowledge funding of the research project from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, file #14126, and in-kind support of the City of Hamilton...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:21

... metabolic stress; and the absence of glutamine in the amino acid solutions may have contributed to infectious morbidity risk and outcome [14] The final concern is that in the era of tight glycaemic ... from the signs of overfeeding Hyperglycaemia in the past would have resulted in a reduction in the feed delivery, although avoiding hyperglycaemia insulin therapy will simply facilitate the metabolic ... has little to with the route of nutrition but everything to with the content and amount of nutrition In intensive care modern PN does not carry increased risk [9]; indeed the EN v PN debate was...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 08:20

... now the case If it is assumed that knowledge is a private good then it is up to the owner of the good to decide whether to share it or not To entice people to share their knowledge, in terms of ... examined the moderating role of employee self-monitoring disposition on the effects of these incentives Study is quite different in focus from the other two While studies and examined the role of situational ... essence, knowledge sharing involves one’s willingness to ‘give up the secret of fire’ for the benefit of coworkers Therefore unlike other forms of organizational citizenship behaviors, knowledge...

Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2015, 11:24

... toward the consumption of the output of a KRS This is the final stage of knowledge reuse Knowledge seekers apply the knowledge retrieved in practice, thus realize the potential value of knowledge ... which relates to the level of success in interpreting the desired meaning of the sender by the receiver; and the effectiveness level, which is about the effect of the information on the receiver’s ... in the theory of knowledge reusability, with emphasis on knowledge repositories, Markus (2001) defined the process of knowledge reuse in terms of four steps: capturing knowledge, refining knowledge...

Ngày tải lên: 28/09/2015, 13:21

... (2004: 618), the purpose of the knowledge- based view of the firm is “ the critical question is not whether knowledge should be owned or acquired in the market or how the exchange of knowledge should ... (2005) use the unit rather than the firm as their unit of analysis, and Jantunen (2005)’s study was more focused on industrial firms And neither of them considers the dimension of knowledge identification, ... by high turbulence, the value of knowledge tends to depreciate faster because of the high levels of inter-period uncertainty Therefore, the influence of different levels of environmental turbulence...

Ngày tải lên: 16/10/2015, 15:38

... muttered Of course sometimes they didn’t pull the brain out the nose Sometimes they just sliced off the head Then they drained the brains out through the neck and put the head back on the body They ... make a sound The lid creaked and opened another inch Another inch I lowered the flashlight to the opening, the light quivering with my hand From the dark depths of the ancient coffin, I saw two ... heading in the wrong direction altogether,” Uncle Ben told the workers, scratching the bald spot on the back of his head The tunnel might be over there.” He pointed to the wall on the right “No,...

Ngày tải lên: 03/12/2015, 19:07

... saw Aaron on the other side of the flames He was goofing with two other guys They were wrestling around, trying to shove each other off the log I sighed Aaron has already made a bunch of friends, ... didn’t finish the song Two older girls sat down on the other end of my log They looked about fifteen or sixteen I turned to say hi to them But they were busy talking One of them had a bag of Gummi ... “Find a buddy The canoes are over there.” She pointed, then trotted away Canoes splashed into the water The slap of the wooden paddles echoed around the shore I ran to the stack of canoes, searching...

Ngày tải lên: 03/12/2015, 19:44

... the terms ‘transfer of training’ and ‘transfer of learning’ interchangeably to refer to the application of the knowledge and skills learned in training back to the job The 19 application of these ... more) of the trainees, their immediate supervisor, their subordinates and others who are knowledgeable about their behaviour (Kikpatrick 1994:55) Finally, level four of the Kirkpatrick model is the ... consider knowledge sharing in his HRD model The development of the research questions for this study arose in response to the paucity of research investigating the question of how transfer of training...

Ngày tải lên: 21/12/2015, 14:11